One of the festival books of the just concluded Lagos Book and Arts Festival was Joseph E. Stiglitz’s The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them. 931 mais palavras
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The Gap
Promised to write something about inequality, so here it is…
This writing mostly taken and inspired by “The Great Divide”, I accidentally found this book on my mentor’s bookshelf. 406 mais palavras
Five-minute study reveals: Allowing rich people to launder money, avoid taxes by hiding assets in offshore accounts, while vacuuming up entitlements like they were all-dressed crinkle-cut potato chips, actually ISN'T a great thing after all.
Nobel prize winners stunned by presentation; “Who knew?” says Chairman of World Economic Summit, Brussels. (Yes, like the sprouts.)
BRUSSELS¹: Unemployed bricklayer Wilhelm “Willy” Arschfecken stunned the World Economic Summit today with the results of his… 484 mais palavras
Opinion: Stiglitz on what's needed in this 'New America'
I’ve just finished reading a good and well-thought out article by one of my favorite political/ socio-economic commentators, Joseph Stiglitz. The Nobel Memorial Prize recipient basically gives his opinion on the policies and sectors that President-elect Trump must now focus on to provide the economic difference he based his campaign on. 60 mais palavras
Death of the Euro: Thinking the Unthinkable
Impakter Magazine just published my latest article, here it is:
BOOK REVIEW “THE EURO: HOW A COMMON CURRENCY THREATENS THE FUTURE OF EUROPE” BY JOSEPH. E.
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Del 80/20 de Pareto al 99/01 de Stiglitz…. En España
El principio de Pareto se ha aplicado con éxito a los ámbitos de la política y la Economía. Se describió como una población en la que aproximadamente el 20% ostentaba el 80% del poder político y la abundancia económica, mientras que el otro 80% de población, lo que Pareto denominó «las masas», se repartía el 20% restante de la riqueza y tenía poca influencia política. 289 mais palavras
Globalization and its New Discontents
NEW YORK – Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalization and its Discontents,describing growing opposition in the developing world to globalizing reforms. 908 mais palavras
